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Re-posted comment from a previous thread[0] Still relevant [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097966 ___________________ There is a theory floating about that some ransomware attacks were done purely to damage a country's infra and making money was a bonus, but not the main aim. So the perpetrators used ransomware as a front and the real goal is to destroy and disrupt a country's computer infra. But then we could argue ransomware is just going to bolster and make our systems antifragile and resilient against such attacks in the future, so the ransomware attacks could backfire since in the future it would be much harder to attack the US for example with other types of malware. It also means people are going to be storing mission critical and crown-jewels type data in airgapped systems and making filesystems read-only. The data would also be encrypted and compartmented into separate containers so attacks can't affect the whole filesystem if the airgap was breached.